more on the hatred/delegitimization of Israel in the U.S.

One of my new themes is that many Americans hate Israel; it is a kind of groundswell. I don't say this is good energy, it has a sometimes reactionary component. But it must be dealt with politically. Here are two fresh pieces of evidence. 
1, A couple of people have sent me lately to this site called US media and Israel, run by David Morris, who evidently lives in Maine. You will see it features a grotesque (but substantially accurate) cartoon of the U.S. media as a waiter, serving up the American people as a sucking pig to Ariel Sharon, who is kicking around the little Palestinians under his table. Morris made the cartoon in 2003 and tried then to publish it in the New York Times as an ad on the Op-Ed page, in a place where pro-Israel ads often appear, but he says the publisher himself rejected it in the end, and it appeared in USA Today. A year later management was changed at USA Today, Morris states, as if there is any causation there, which is unpersuasive. The intriguing thing about the cartoon is that Morris published it online just a month or so back. I'm sure he did so because of his rage at Gaza. Last week at the New York Theatre Workshop, emcee Laura Flanders presumed to wonder whether there was rage in Caryl Churchill's play, 7 Jewish Children. This struck me as polite mystification. The play is filled with rage! Rage is a legitimate response to the slaughter of civilians. The issue again is, what to do with it. Morris's cartoon is in an American tradition and, because of the pig, I guess has an anti-Semitic vibe as well. But it is a real sign of populist rage against our foolish Middle East policy, reflected too by Philip Giraldi saying, Stop arming war criminals!
2, That was a run-on example. My second example is really anecdotal. At the Caryl Churchill play a week ago, a woman from Revolution Books, I believe Connie Julian, stood up and made the statement that Israel was the worst thing to happen to the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Well the other night I was at a gathering in New York at which a pro-Israel guy repeated the expression, with some concern. He had heard it, I think at a lecture about Israel's delegitimization. So this frightening slogan is in the air. Again, democratic political processes should deal with these sentiments. Leaders (and yes I mean the president elected by a progressive base) should reflect the legitimate aspect of these views: rage against the use of white phosphorus missiles on children.